On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 08:43:19 -0800 (PST), J. wrote in message <234538.53500...@web33103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>:
> You are all being ridiculous except for Curt. > > We have the ability to sell the product and could theoretically get > sued even though we are open-source. As I have said, the best thing > to do is put in a legal disclaimer saying we are not affiliated with > any companies which may be represented in our product. It appears > much of trademark law deals with misrepresentation - if we > misrepresent the fact they are not associated with us then we are in > trouble (IE: an ad saying Red Bull (logo) loves FlightGear to > practice air racing would be bad). ..the mere absence of such a legal disclaimer, can be construed as a misrepresentation, and done in a frivolous law suit, it _will_ cost us money to hire some law shark to file a formally acceptable response to such a claim to the "relevant" courts. ..yes, it _is_ possible to try do it yourself, in about the same way FG qualifies each of us as F-104G pilots. .."not responding", means _lose_ by default. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
